The Cable Guy
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The Cable Guy is a 1996 dark comedy film starring Jim Carrey as an obsessive cable installer whose intrusive friendship wreaks havoc on a customer’s life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Cable Guy canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6558143 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Cable Guy Context triple: [Matthew Broderick, notableWork, The Cable Guy]
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A.
Clerks
Clerks is a 1994 independent black-and-white comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith that follows a day in the lives of two convenience store clerks and became a cult classic.
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B.
Wayne's World
Wayne's World is a popular comedy franchise centered on two rock-obsessed slackers hosting a public-access TV show, best known from its hit 1992 film and recurring sketches.
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C.
Grosse Pointe Blank
Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 dark comedy film about a hitman who returns to his hometown for a high school reunion while grappling with his violent profession and unresolved past.
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D.
Big Daddy
Big Daddy was a hugely popular British professional wrestler and cultural icon of the 1970s and 1980s, known for his massive size, crowd-pleasing persona, and frequent appearances on televised World of Sport wrestling.
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E.
Big Daddy
Big Daddy is one of the tallest and most famous sand dunes in Namibia’s Namib Desert, renowned for its dramatic height and panoramic views over the Sossusvlei salt and clay pans.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Cable Guy Target entity description: The Cable Guy is a 1996 dark comedy film starring Jim Carrey as an obsessive cable installer whose intrusive friendship wreaks havoc on a customer’s life.
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A.
Clerks
Clerks is a 1994 independent black-and-white comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith that follows a day in the lives of two convenience store clerks and became a cult classic.
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B.
Wayne's World
Wayne's World is a popular comedy franchise centered on two rock-obsessed slackers hosting a public-access TV show, best known from its hit 1992 film and recurring sketches.
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C.
Grosse Pointe Blank
Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 dark comedy film about a hitman who returns to his hometown for a high school reunion while grappling with his violent profession and unresolved past.
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D.
Big Daddy
Big Daddy is one of the tallest and most famous sand dunes in Namibia’s Namib Desert, renowned for its dramatic height and panoramic views over the Sossusvlei salt and clay pans.
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E.
Big Daddy
Big Daddy was a hugely popular British professional wrestler and cultural icon of the 1970s and 1980s, known for his massive size, crowd-pleasing persona, and frequent appearances on televised World of Sport wrestling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossWorldwideUSD | 102800000 ⓘ |
| budgetUSD | 47000000 ⓘ |
| character |
Chip Douglas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rick NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Sweet NERFINISHED ⓘ Stan Sweet NERFINISHED ⓘ Steven Kovacs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Robert Brinkmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Ben Stiller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Steven Weisberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy film
ⓘ
satirical film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
loneliness
ⓘ
media saturation ⓘ obsession ⓘ toxic friendship ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor | Jim Carrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | Chip Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Ottman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | darker tone compared to Jim Carrey's earlier comedies ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An obsessive cable installer develops an intrusive and destructive friendship with a customer. ⓘ |
| producer |
Bernie Brillstein
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Judd Apatow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Columbia Pictures
ⓘ
Judd Apatow Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1996-06-14 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Lou Holtz Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| starring |
Ben Stiller
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Diane Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ George Segal NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Carrey NERFINISHED ⓘ Leslie Mann NERFINISHED ⓘ Matthew Broderick NERFINISHED ⓘ Owen Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy | Lou Holtz Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Cable Guy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Cable Guy Description of subject: The Cable Guy is a 1996 dark comedy film starring Jim Carrey as an obsessive cable installer whose intrusive friendship wreaks havoc on a customer’s life.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.